Soft sphere potential
The soft sphere potential is defined as
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where Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \Phi_{12}\left(r \right) } is the intermolecular pair potential between two soft spheres separated by a distance Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle r := |\mathbf{r}_1 - \mathbf{r}_2|} , Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \epsilon } is the interaction strength and Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \sigma } is the diameter of the sphere. Frequently the value of Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle n} is taken to be 12, thus the model effectively becomes the high temperature limit of the Lennard-Jones model [1]. If Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle n\rightarrow \infty} one has the hard sphere model. For Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle n \le 3} no thermodynamically stable phases are found.
Equation of state
The soft-sphere equation of state[2] has recently been studied by Tan, Schultz and Kofke[3] and experssed in terms of Padé approximants. For Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle n=6} one has (Eq. 8):
- Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle Z_{n=6} = \frac{1 + 7.432255 \rho + 23.854807 \rho^2 + 40.330195 \rho^3 + 34.393896 \rho^4 + 10.723480 \rho^5}{1+ 3.720037 \rho + 4.493218 \rho^2 + 1.554135 \rho^3}}
and for Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle n=9}
one has (Eq. 9):
- Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle Z_{n=9} = \frac{1 + 3.098829 \rho + 5.188915 \rho^2 + 5.019851 \rho^3 + 2.673385 \rho^4 + 0.601529 \rho^5}{1+ 0.262771 \rho + 0.168052 \rho^2 - 0.010554 \rho^3}}
Virial coefficients
Solid phase
Glass transition
Transport coefficients
References
- ↑ Jean-Pierre Hansen "Phase Transition of the Lennard-Jones System. II. High-Temperature Limit", Physical Review A 2 pp. 221-230 (1970)
- ↑ William G. Hoover, Marvin Ross, Keith W. Johnson, Douglas Henderson, John A. Barker and Bryan C. Brown "Soft-Sphere Equation of State", Journal of Chemical Physics 52 pp. 4931-4941 (1970)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Tai Boon Tan, Andrew J. Schultz and David A. Kofke "Virial coefficients, equation of state, and solid-fluid coexistence for the soft sphere model", Molecular Physics 109 pp. 123-132 (2011) Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "Tan" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ Nigel B. Wilding "Freezing parameters of soft spheres", Molecular Physics 107 pp. 295-299 (2009)
- ↑ D. M. Heyes, S. M. Clarke, and A. C. Brańka "Soft-sphere soft glasses", Journal of Chemical Physics 131 204506 (2009)
- ↑ D. M. Heyes and A. C. Branka "Density and pressure dependence of the equation of state and transport coefficients of soft-sphere fluids", Molecular Physics 107 pp. 309-319 (2009)